This post is for parents who mercifully leave their own children’s genitals intact but refuse to condemn other parents for performing non-essential “surgery” on their own children’s genitals (for religious or non-religious reasons).

This follows on from a previous post in November 2011. If you haven’t already done so, I would politely recommend reading that before you read this one. But if, like me, you like a short cut, here’s a heavily abridged version of the story so far…

Regular readers of this blog may be familiar with some of these arguments from previous articles, but I thought it would be helpful (for myself and others) to have these set out conveniently in one article in the context of faith schools.